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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01655	A publike declaration· made by the united Protestant princes electors and other princes, states and lords, of the Holie Empire, thereby shewing for what causes and reasons, they are mooued to ioyne together in a straight vnitie and alliance, to aide and assist the princes electors of BrandenBurgh and the Palsgraue: in the possession of the dukedomes, countryes and dominions of Gulike, Cleaue, and Berge. Translated out of the Duch copie, printed at Amsterdam by Michael Colyn, ann. 1610	Protestant Union (1608-1620)	1610 (1610)	STC 11795; ESTC S103058	4,940	12

which if it pleaseth God wee will in time make knowne and manifest to the world so that none that are or haue vnited themselues with vs shall haue cause to dislike of our procéedings but which is more others both of the one and the other Religion shall haue cause to vnite themselues with vs that so all hurtfull distrust hitherto had and entertained may be taken away and good and perfect vnity planted and vpholden But we cannot refraine but must let the Emperours Maiestie and all other Potentates Electors Princes and States both within and without the Land Vnderstand and be aduertised That it is manifestly and openly knowne vnto all men how that after the death of the high and mighty Prince our friendly louing Vncle cousin brother in law brother and gossip of famous memorie Iohn William Duke of Gulick Cleaue and Bergh Earle vander Marcke Rauensburgh and Moers Baron of Rauensten and Christmilder in the right of the wiues of the Electors of Brandenburch and the Palsgraue Philip Lodowicke and of eyther of them by themselues the temporall Possessions of all the aforesaid Duchies Earledomes and Baronies not clam or precario but fréely openly and with the good wil of most of the Countries and Townes is lawfully discended and fallen vnto them and that with manifest protestation and Declaration by them made that it is not done of couetousnesse or wrongfully to with-hold any man from being a Competitor therein if he hath any right thereunto but that both the said heires protest touching the same eyther for any part or for the whole in generall vnto euery man that will not desist from their claime before an vnpartiall Iudge and in such Townes and places where the cause properly and according to the authority of the holy Empire and specially of the Princes Electors belongeth to be heard to yéeld good sufficient and true reasons and answeres vnto them to maintaine their right and which is more if néede be to giue sufficient Cautio de iudicio sisti iudicatum solui to proue their cause And therfore we altogether séeke to foresée and preuent that no man shall hinder nor molest them herein with vnlawfull power and forces contrary to the Ordinances and Constitutions of the holy Empire All this notwithstanding their protestations and lawfull right not once being considered nor respected in the Emperours Court and in the Emperours most Princely Maiesties Name and authority it is euidently and earnestly practised and vndertaken de facto without due course of law and Iustice by power and forcibly to dispossesse and vtterly to expell the said Princes being lawfull heires thereunto from the right and possession thereof To the which end not onely Leopoldus Arch-bishop of Austria and Bishop of Stratsbourgh and Passauwe suddenly and secretly first hath taken and entred into the town of Gulick and the same hitherto holden and kept by force but hath procéeded further and seacute eketh to seaze vpon and forcibly to hold certaine Gentlemens houses vilages and Schonses lying thereabouts and to inuade other neighbour townes and places next adiacent to kéepe the subiects thereof from their due obedience and threatning the Princes Electors the right heires and possessours thereof as also all those that with due obedience and fidelity submit themselues vnto them with the most vndeserued paine and punishment of contempt although in such a case neuer heard of before in the holy Empire if they resist him all to the end as it is manifestly made known and verified vnto vs That these Countries may be vnburthened freed and cleansed ex faucibus hereticorum as the States of the confession of Ausburg e diametro contrary to the religious peace are falsly called In regard therfore that our aforesaid brethren and members with their Adherents according to the force and power of the Lawes and Ordinances of the holy Empire and for the peace of the Lawe haue desired ayde and assistance of vs and therewithall protested that their intent neuer was nor yet is to oppose themselues against the most high and puissant Imperiall Maiesty as being their gratious Lord and soueraigne Prince And we diligently considering all the circumstances cannot otherwise finde nor perceiue but that they séeke and desire the accomplishing of the Ordinances and Imperiall Lawes of the holy Empire as they themselues for the defence of their right in a printed pamphlet haue sufficiently and truely declared whereunto for breuitie sake we referre you We cannot likewise thinke imagine nor once be perswaded that the Emperours Imperiall Maiestie taketh any pleasure in or is content to permit any such disorderly and vnlawful procéedings to haue their course against the said Princes specially being well enformed of the equity of the cause considering that their capitulation specifieth and containeth in it that his Maiestie is bound in all cases and by all the meanes hée can to maintaine not onely all the Princes Electors but also all Princely members of the holy Empire and all other Princes and States in their dignities honours rights priuiledges powers and forces and to suffer them fréely to holde possesse and inioy them and for his owne part not to doe any thing to the contrary nor yet to suffer nor endure the same to be done by any other whatsoeuer And also if his Maiestie or any other whatsoeuer had any thing to say vnto the Princes Electors Princes and States aforesaid or any intent to doe any such thing that to cease all vprores contentions and other Controuersies in the holy Empire to maintaine peace and vnity therein he should suffer and permit them altogether euery one particularly to be heard and haue their causes adiudged before lawfull Iudges and in open Courts of Law but by no means to permit them in any such or other causes vnder any pretence or any mans name whatsoeuer whrein they may haue Iustice and offer and submit themselues thereunto to be robbed taken ransomd burnt fought withall besieged exposed or in any waies ouer-run spoiled and forcibly handled Therefore we haue thought it our dueties according to the faiths and fidelities whereby one Territorie in such like case is bound and obliged to another and by the force and power of the foresaid Ordinances of the holy Empire to aide and assist our brèthren and fellow members as obedient Princes Electors of the Empire but in no other maner but that euery one may lawfully procéede in his right touching the principall matter without hinderance and that they procéede not vnduely with vnlawfull power against the aforesaid capitulation and Ordinances of the Empire but that they may be suffered peaceably in their possession and to enioy the benefite of the Law for the due procéeding therein as also without it according to all equity they ought to haue Therefore our friendly request and motion vnto all Christian Princes and Common-wealths but specially to all the Princes Electors Princes and States of the holy Empire is not to take this our defensiue and naturall due assistance and ayde giuen at this time as procéeding from Christian loue fidelity and commiseration and of it selfe being reasonable and very necessary in any euill part much lesse to hinder the same but rather to shew all further ance and assistance therein and to put too their helping hands to the end that all the aforesaid troubles may be ended and a better truer and vprighter concord be held and maintained among the States of the holy Empire Which we in generall and euery one by himselfe according to his estate in particular in the like cases and oceasions will requite and acknowledge to our powers FINIS